Roaring 20's Test

Question 1

Red Scare

Answer 1

Radicals join the communist party, mailed bombs to political leaders, palmer raids started

Question 2

What were the labor unions?

Answer 2

communist radicals

Question 3

Palmer Raids

Answer 3

Attorney general and hoover hunted down suspected communists, violated amrican rights

Question 4

Sacco and Venzetti Trial

Answer 4

Two poor italian men accused of murder, was put on death row, sparked controversy everywhere

Question 5

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 5

Movie “Birth of a nation” didn’t want diversity in america, didn’t want change

Question 6

Immigration

Answer 6

Wanted to keep people from undesireable countries out- Southern and eastern Europeans, immigrants sent their money back home, caused issues for US economy

Question 7

Immigration act 1924

Answer 7

population of a country livng in US in 1890, 2% of that allowed in each year from each country

Question 8

Prohibition

Answer 8

led to organized crime, 18th amendment, didn’t prohibit drinking alc

Question 9

Speakeasies

Answer 9

Saloons that illegally sold alc- organized crime by bootleggers

Question 10

Volstead Act

Answer 10

prohibition enforced by the treasury department (not enforced well) led to speakeasies, helped people to consume less alc

Question 11

Al Capone

Answer 11

Leader of organized crime, never commited the crimes himself- speakeasies and bootlegging

Question 12

Scopes Trial

Answer 12

Scopes accused of teaching evolution in school- illegal. Caused controversy in the US- new idea of modern. Defense smoked the prosecutor but went to jail anyway

Question 13

ACLU

Answer 13

backed up tom scopes- helped protect free speach for artists

Question 14

What was wrong with credit

Answer 14

buy now pay later- caused great depression

Question 15

Labor tensions

Answer 15

businesses lowered wages and safety, raised hours- people joined unions

Question 16

George Gershwin

Answer 16

started jazz

Question 17

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 17

a time of black expansion- proud to be black- black jazz music boomed

Question 18

Charles lindbergh

Answer 18

first pilot to fly accross Atlantic alone

Question 19

Lindbergh kidnapping

Answer 19

Lindbergh’s 20 month old child kidnapped and later found dead- was the trial of the century

Question 20

Marcus Garvey

Answer 20

encouraged pride in ethnicity, return to Africa, starline steamship, was later convicted of fraud

Question 21

What happened to tarriffs?

Answer 21

Passed even higher tarriffs, later made depression even worse causing countries to stop trading w eachother

Question 22

Warren G HArding

Answer 22

Very corrupt president, cabinet also very corrupt. Secured oil drilling for Americans in middle east

Question 23

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 23

teapot dome, wyoming- Albert Fall (cabinet member) sold land to private companies for bribes

Question 24

Charles forbes (cabinet member)

Answer 24

stole money from veterans bereau

Question 25

Harry Daugherty (cabinet member)

Answer 25

illegally sold liquor permits

Question 26

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 26

refused to sign legislation to regulate farmers prices, vetoed a bill to help farmers

Question 27

Farmers issues

Answer 27

were doing so well during the war, bought more land and overproduced once war was over, causing them to go into dept. Not enough demand and no help from government

Question 28

Teens

Answer 28

actually started to act like teens- didn't have to work anymore, college traditions started

Question 29

Womens suffrage

Answer 29

19th amendment right to vote, flappers fought for womens rights